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  • I loves me Wickard v. Filburn which held that a farm not doing interstate commerce could be regulated by the Commerce Clause because the lack of commerce affected interstate commerce.

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  • Oh boy you are late to the party. The interstate commerce clause has been twisted for decades to basically allow a Federal hook for anything to exist.

    In this case however, I think the Destructive Device charge alone would have sufficed as the hook.

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  • News media unfortunately tends to look up the absolute maximum a crime can be sentenced and reports as if that is the default sentencing. It is rare for crimes to be sentenced to the max. If we can get past the screaming about "but this is Trump's America now!", the sentencing is still unlikely to be at the max, or at least not maxed out on every count.

    I wish the article had shown their work, because from my skim (quick skim, but I'm pretty solid on the DD charge maximum at least) the two charges together have a maximum sentencing of 17 years combined if charged by the federal system. It would have been 13 if the state had charged.

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  • If the Federal government takes over prosecution the big charge is going to be that Destructive Device charge which looks to be up to 10 years. It seems unlikely the sentence imposed would be the max on every charge, media loves to report maximums as if they are automatically what always gets handed down, but that's just media being dramatic.

    I'd really love media articles to actually explain sentencing in detail on articles where they just throw around numbers without explaining them.

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  • Based on how verification was revoked for some users on Twitter based on their content rather than question of their identity, I'm cautious about this system turning into the status symbol it became on Twitter rather than the verification it claimed to be.

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  • Unfortunately, the forecast isn't good for the integrity of what should be a simple system. Under Dorsey, the Twitter blue checkmark had already become a tool for showing content approval by Twitter. In various instances users had their status removed based on their content and not on a question of if they were who they claimed to be.

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  • Tripcodes are not automatically applied. Default posting was anonymous, but a user could optionally post with a tripcode name.

    Some boards like /pol/ introduced post IDs where a randomly generated code would follow your anonymous name within a thread, so others could see which comments within a thread were the same person. That system wasn't site wide though, and it wasn't a persistent account.

  • Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for waterballs?

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  • If it's a round ball that's .68 caliber, sure. I mean it's a ball being launched.

    However, are any waterballs even that size? And why? A waterball that was wet would probably jam up, so you'd end up shooting a dry one and it seems like a lot of effort to reinvent the wheel.

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  • I only watched the first episode and it didn't grab me. The whole setup with Skinner publicly announcing a challenge to find him just kept making me think of Willy Wonka. It was a convoluted set up.

    The rest of the run time being Great Value Spike Spiegel escaping from prison was so needlessly indulgent. It just went on and on and on. It easily could have been cut down to leave time to actually meet other characters in the first episode more.

    Without the action, plot, or visuals especially grabbing me I just didn't come back.

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  • Not based on an existing object, just a fighter design I've been toying with for a while. I like the action figure sensibility of having moving parts to snap into attack mode.

  • Swingwing interceptor

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  • The back set of wings is supposed to be just long enough to clear the forward wings and line up. Measurements say it works but a failure of fully accounting for perception of perspective.

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  • Played a little college ball, you know.

  • Russia has depleted its tank stocks: the industry is not covering combat losses

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  • Kind of sort of, but I was thinking more along the lines of the U.S. Army's "MFP" M10. Essentially reviving the light tank but adding some Science on top.

    BMDs were still made along the trajectory of IFVs where they can hold troops, and like you mentioned the lighter armor from the airborne desire for use makes them vulnerable even to smaller diameter HEAT rounds.

    My vague vision would be something more like a light tank (by the modern definition of "light" which is more like 50ish tons bare and 60 with all the fixins), with enough armor to survive side hits from low 80ish-mm rounds, and very importantly investment in active protection. Thermal signature reduction like a lot of new showcase vehicles are adding. Maybe even something like the new KF Panther where they have a dedicated drone operator to control a drone that shadows the tank. This all is kind of "if I were king of the world" thought experimenting since of course Russia clearly doesn't have the resources to even make proper upgrades to T90Ms to bring them up to a 2020s standard.

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  • Can you clarify.

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  • I don't think there was a good option that was also realistic. The T-90M is itself a long in the tooth design that hasn't gotten the kinds of modernizations that tanks like the Abrams have to keep it relevant (and even then the Abrams is already being retired by the U.S.) Russian tanks needed an overhaul from the T-90M.

    The T-14 on paper had a lot of good upgrades. The problem of course being that it's much easier to draw something than make it work.

    So the two options were keep building obsolete "modern" tanks or build a next gen tank that doesn't work.

    What Russian tanks needed was an overhaul to their fire control and ideally their protection to keep up and shift into active protection. The ancient curtain system is not cutting it.

    Part of my wonders if maybe they should have invested in something scaled back and novel. Make a lightweight vehicle like the totally-not-a-tank-we-swear M10 Booker. Something lightweight, with a smaller caliber main gun to focus on taking out structures and infantry targets. Stick some active protection on it, and some missiles and you've got a vehicle that bridges that gap between IFV and MBT.

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  • 155mm, and the U.S. has about 1500 of its M109 self propelled guns in service.

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  • Russia has spent up enough of of their mainline modern vehicles like T-90Ms to a point where the refurbishments have long ago stopped keeping up. Similarly IFVs are lost, especially many of their airborne models which were misused early in the war.

    The war has become much more static, with Russian vehicle losses slowing them down. The final assault on Avdiivka for example was completely brutal, lasting a month and consisting of a lot of unsupported infantry charges over an open field. The Russians did eventually win, taking the fortified position they were assaulting, but the tactics used and amount of losses to do them are not something that would have happened if they'd had the vehicles to spare.

    The shear scale of the war has had Russia brute force it from being a maneuver fight to an attrition fight, and Russia appears to be banking on having the higher population to win. How that will resolve is up in the air, Ukraine wants to turn it back into a maneuver war I think and I don't know if they can. The propaganda from the war by both sides can make it difficult to get a clear up to date picture.

    Also, pretty sure modern warfare has learned heavily that tanks are completely obsolete against drones. Or even less modern warfare tells us how useless they are in cities against [guerrilla] fighters.

    Tanks are one tool in the box, and like any other tool they are adapting to drones. Drones are not a silver bullet, and they especially are not as useful in supporting or spearheading fast moving offensives, which is still an important role tanks will fill. Active protection systems, electronic warfare (both jamming and signal detection to track down enemy drone operators), and tank based drones are all in play to figure out how to best do things now.

    As for cities, tanks have always had trouble in cities. This isn't a revelation of this war. Militaries tend to be skiddish of putting tanks in city fights unless they really have to. Russia particularly still has memories of Chechnya in this regard.

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  • It never really existed in production, of course. It is like the early builds of the AK-12 where one offs were made and shown off as if they were going into full scale production soon.

    The more real BMPT was at least fielded in double digit numbers, although conceptually it seems more suited to being a terror weapon supporting a shock & awe type advance rather than something used in a prolonged war.

  • Does Dove hold a copyright on the shape of their soap?

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  • I don't know, but I do know copyright and patent are two different kinds of protection, so it might be useful to look into how you think the shape would be protected.

    Copyright would be for a creative work, and the enforcement by the right holder is allowed to be loose in selectively pursuing violators without losing protections.

    Patent is for useful inventions or designs rather than expressive works. Skimming the Theodore G Brown soap, it seems much more involved than a simple shape and I can see why it was able to be patented.

  • What art style you want to reproduce?

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  • The feeling of cheaply produced 80s and 90s cartoon productions. Clean, minimal lines with no or very little lineweight variation. Bright colors and distinct silhouettes. Facial structures somewhere between to 80s TV cartoon anime, which were themselves often inspired by American cartoons and not nearly as distinct as modern anime most often is, and American comic books as drawn by Jim Lee or JRJR. Big influence of technology designs from blocky designs like Transformers, and comics like Liefeld where guns or robots are just stuffed with nonsense greebles.

    Or at least I'm trying.

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    Untitled drawing

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    Important reminder from a worldbuilding project

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    Starship crew members

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    Middle management

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    Wasteland traveler

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    The dream

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    CYCOL veteran

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    "Sir, we're here to take you home."

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    Cleaning up after battle

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    Assassin

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    Pitched battle

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    Encounter with a crystal entity

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    Sometimes the frontier pushes back

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    Jungle trooper

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    Shock

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    What is your favorite inconsequential fan theory?

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    How you dune?

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    Live the highlife

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    Urban walker

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    Militia tank